Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Mind can only desire, and each desire is going to be frustrated. Instead of bringing more meditation, it will bring you more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“I stood up. Can a man stand alone, naked, and at his ease, wrist flexed at his side like Michelangelo's David, without… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
In Silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed.In the heart shines the Light of Love.When the Light of Love is… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
“The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“Any clear thing that blinds us with surprise, your wandering silences and bright trouvailles, dolphin let loose to catch the flashing fish...… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“You have a vision. The stink of the opossum, or possibly the Kodiak bear, is rising into the air around you, and… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“Words. I’m surrounded by thousands of words. Maybe millions. Cathedral. Mayonnaise. Pomegranate. Mississippi. Neapolitan. Hippopotamus. Silky. Terrifying. Iridescent. Tickle. Sneeze. Wish. Worry.… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“And no one moans: there is no anguish. Only our nocturnal silence when we crawl on all fours toward the fires that… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“For a moment she lay still in the big bed, blinking sleepily, loath to move. And then she realized that the angel’s… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“They did not talk, not because they hated conversation, but because they wanted to listen intently to the voice of God in… — Benedicta Ward Copy Share Image
Anthony Hopkins is the kindest, sweetest most creative person I've met. He did something really insane between takes of the Westworld, out… — Angela Sarafyan Copy Share Image
“God uses silence to teach us to use words responsibly. He uses tiredness so that we can understand the value of waking… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still; No sign of spring, save that the… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
“Fish held the silence for so long that I had to restrain myself from prodding her. That's never a good idea. Sometimes… — Adam-Troy Castro Copy Share Image
“A note exists between two notes of music, between two facts exists a fact, between two grains of sand no matter how… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Well then, he said. What are you doing here? I am not sure. Liberty I suppose. I lived so long under constraints.… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
How does silence find its way out of that noisy, chattering mind? That endless maze of thought, concept, opinion, belief? How does… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into… — Bailey White Copy Share Image
I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Gloomy room immersed in a scent of modern cowards filled with shapeless creatures sitting in silence because they have nothing to say… — Asper Blurry Copy Share Image
